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Just a guess, since I'm not familiar with Drupal, but my immediate reaction was that "Drude" was a portmanteau of "Druid" and "Dude", which would be somewhat in keeping with the Wikipedia definition, and connoting some sort of hip wizard, with the additional benefit of the initial "dr" reflecting Drupal as well.

Drude is not a word normally used to mean a user with particular permissions on drupal.org. The "initiative" has not be done on drupal.org, but in another place/country. I was thinking of a typo (i.e., the user really meant dude), but he wrote the word in capital.
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kiamlalunoFeb 1 '11 at 11:09

No, but I mean it could be the user name, like 'kiamlaluno', of a particular moderator. 'Kiamlaluno is on board with this.'
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user3444Feb 1 '11 at 11:23

That's the first think I checked, but Drude is not a username on drupal.org. :-)
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kiamlalunoFeb 1 '11 at 14:32

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Yes it is: drupal.org/user/773686 . In any case, it is not an English word. I am 99.999999% sure it refers to someone (or a group of people) involved with the Drupal project, purely because of the context.
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user3444Feb 1 '11 at 14:38

I think it is probably a joining of Drupal and The Dude (a/k/a Jeff Bridges' character in The Big Lebowski).

Either that's someone's chosen screen name or the fictional embodiment of some familial spirit that stalks the Drupal board in question. OK, maybe "slouches through" the boards is a better way to put it.